Sarat Chandra Pandit: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = Simladdi, [[Birbhum district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[West Bengal]], [[India]]

'''Sarat Chandra Pandit''' (27 April 1879 – 27 April 1968),<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Murshidabad|url=http://murshidabad.nic.in/history2.htm|accessdate=8 March 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204043332/http://murshidabad.nic.in/history2.htm|archivedate=4 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Sarat Chandra Pandit|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19680428&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=16 February 2018|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=28 April 1968|page=7}}</ref> better known as ‘Dada Thakur’ (দাদাঠাকুর), was a well-known composer of humorous rhymes, writer, publisher and social critic. He had his ancestral house at Dafarpur<ref>{{cite web|title=Dafarpur|url=http://wikimapia.org/#lat=24.463972&lon=88.0648881&z=19&l=0&m=b|accessdate=8 March 2012}}</ref> in Jangipur Sub-division of West Bengal, India. Most of his life he resided at [[Jangipur, Murshidabad|Jangipur]] town. However, the ancestral seat of the Pandits were at ''Dharmapur'', a village in [[Rampurhat subdivision]], [[Birbhum District]] of [[West Bengal]]. ''Sarat Chandra Pandit's'' grandfather ''Ishan Chandra Pandit'' left his ancestral village ''Dharmapur'' and settled in ''Dafarpur'' following a family conflict.''<ref>''Sera Manush Dadathakur'', Mitra, Nirmalranjan, Rupa & Co., Calcutta, 1951,p. 26 & 34</ref>

He''Sarat Chandra Pandit'' singly-handedly published the newspaper, 'Jungipore Sangbad' playing the roles of author, press-compositor, proof-reader and printer. Initially he was assisted by his wife and temporary workers in running the press, a wooden hand-press which was run in his bedroom. He also published 'Bidushak' [বিদূষক] (Jester), a pamphlet of satire, humor and social commentary and used it as his weapon for social change and to bring public awareness against corruption.